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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFIC ISIDOR BEACH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent/No. 278,769, dated June 5,1883.

I Application filed September-6,1882. (No specimens.)

To. all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ISIDOR BEACH, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city and county of Philadelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in theArt of Making Cigars, of which the following is a full,clear, and exactdescription.

The nature of my invention is an improved method of making cigarswithout the use of binders, whereby a comparatively cheap and freesmoking cigar is produced.

To this end I mix intimately with a quantity of filling aweak solutionof gum-arabic,or other suitable adhesive substance not having anunpleasant taste or odor. I then take a sufficient quantity of thefilling thus prepared to constitute a bunch, and mold it into the shapeof a cigar in the usual molds, and then remove it from the molds andapply the wrapper thereto in the ordinary manner. After the gum hasbecome somewhat dry or set, I roll the cigar lightly over a flat surfacein order to loosen the fillers, and thus break up the continuity of themass, so that the cigar will have a free draft. I make use of theadhesive substance as a substitute for the binders to hold the bunchtogether previous to putting on the wrapper. Thus I save the expense l 0of the binders, and avoid the uncertainty of securing a free ,draft ascigars are usually made, owing to the compression of the filling by thebinders.

Instead of using the molds as described, the bunch may be rolled toshape in a piece of cloth or paper, the wrapper being afterward applied,(first removing the cloth or paper,) and when the gum has partially setthe cigar is lightly rolled as before.

I do not made any claim generally to the 40 holding together ofparticles of tobacco by means of a cohesive medium, as that is not new.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The improvement in the art of making oi gars, whichconsists in treating the filling with athin solution of a suitableadhesive gum, then molding the material into the shape of a cigar, thenapplying the wrapper in the usual manner, and,when the adhesivesubstance has be come somewhat set or dry, rolling the cigar to separatethe fillings, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto affixed my signature this 5th day ofSeptember,A. D.- 1882.

ISIDOR BRACH.

IVitnesses:

JOHN BURKHARDT, LIsLE SroKEs.

